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1000 Steps of Cries and Shrieks of the Dead · The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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Good morning and welcome to the grim.
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I'm your host, Kristin, on today's episode, we'll be opening the Cade and entering Greenwood Memorial terrace.
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Located in Spokane Washington.
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So grab your favorite mug cozy up and let's take a dig into history.
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We've been close, but we haven't yet opened a gate on the west coast this season.
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And today we're going to be rectifying that in Spokane.
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The Pacific Northwest is a lush landscape.
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Filled with beautiful Woodlands and majestic sites.
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So it's no surprise that one of their cemeteries wouldn't be any different.
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Greenwood was established in 1888 and fashioned after Europe's grand Victorian gardens.
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And for the general public to enjoy refined outdoor family leisure.
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Today lives up to the grand era of a Victorian graveyard, both at a more spacious feel the grounds feature, winding paths to finding the natural landscape with spring-fed fountains.
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And a waterfall.
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Once again, having visitors and all for getting their ground serve a grave purpose.
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Greenwood, however, was established to help an ever-growing city's problem for providing a space for is deceased, which may seem odd considering Spokane was a frontier town, but the overload of those seeking opportunities in mining, the railroad and timber.
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Was greater than the city was built for the west coast in the late 18 hundreds was part of America's frontier and promised land for those hoping to a massive fortune or to spend it.
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The only problem was the original, small pioneer cemeteries.
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Once on the edge of town, weren't able to handle this new population.
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Many were built over unknowingly or sadly destroyed from the need for more housing and development.
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This, this man, a M cannon and a few other prominent members of Spokane society.
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Sauna remedy for this problem.
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The purchase and donated the land just west of town for Spokane's first modern burial site, establishing Greenwood as one of the west coast, first elegant garden and cemeteries.
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Like many cities also, during this time in America's history, Spokane was experiencing the city beautiful movement driven mainly by the upper middle class.
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This saw the redesign or beautification of cities in an attempt to redevelop poor living conditions.
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And create a more urban grandier city.
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This was more prominent in cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas city, and Washington, DC and Chicago, where the world's fair was taking place in 1893, Chicago was the driving force with hosting the world's fair, creating the white city with modern transport systems.
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And no poverty visible to visitors.
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Other cities immediately followed its lead.
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Like Spokane, seeing its population grow in cities, beautifully redesigned.
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Greenwood's establishment in 1888, saw its design being heavily influenced by this and can still be seen to this day.
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The cemetery is fashion in three separate terraces in an expansive wooded setting.
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The first terror starts with the flats on the lowest level Greenwood's offices can be found here along with a few memorials and headstones varying in design, showing the changes over time.
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Headstones range from an upright old fashion to Austin.
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Uh, or, or Nate from the rural garden era, the next terrace is known as the bench.
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This is where many of Spokane's high society can be found and where the best B of the city was ironically it's establishment of the best view faded over time from trees growing.
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And now the top has this honor.
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Then the last is the top terrorists where visitors can see breathtaking views of the city and a giant white cement cross of inspiration that was erected in 1961.
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Where each year an interdenominational Easter service is held along with other events.
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The first barrier on the grounds was of Mrs.
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HF, noth bomb on July 1st, 1888.
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Yeah, great wind.
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Didn't have just new barrels to take over from the old pioneer cemeteries.
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Nearby old mountain view, cemetery and more on Prairie cemetery had bodies disinterred and re buried within Greenwood.
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Around 50 bodies are believed to have been removed from all mountain view and an unknown number from Warren and Prairie.
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Greenwood's residents are quite an array of souls that went looking for new lives in America's great west.
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Only one buried within is one of America's rail daughters, which listeners I was unfamiliar with this term upon doing research.
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So for those listeners like me, I'll also explain what a real daughter of America is.
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Grill daughter, as a member of the daughters of the American revolution.
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Who was a biological daughter of the Dar qualifying ancestor and distinguished because she was a Dar member, as well as the actual daughter of a soldier or Patriot.
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Only 767 women could claim this distinction with Isabel Johnson, Savage Conway being one of them buried within Greenwood Memorial terrace.
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Crown pie was the daughter of Patriot Philip Johnson who fought under George Washington in the revolutionary war.
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She recalled war tales of her father and two companions while retreating, meaning to swim across shark-infested water with one perishing being killed by a shark during the crossing.
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Then also retelling her mother's tale who apparently was much younger than her father hiding in a damp pit covered by pressure when the family heard British soldiers approaching.
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Conway originally was married, living in New York and then Michigan, but after her first husband's passing boot to spoken Washington.
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This is where she then married Patrick, Peter Conway, but had several misfortunes in business.
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She bought the, the old railroad hotel and also ran the Leland hotel with both hotels being lost, a fires, but thankfully being insured.
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Conway though saw the loss of her brother, Charles Johnson from the fire of one being unable to escape, being an invalid and was suffocated by the smoke.
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In July 14th, 1915, the Liberty bell came to Spokane and Conway had a particular interest in being photographed with the bell.
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She eventually convinced an officer.
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She was a real daughter and they allowed her to take a picture while touching the bell, which normally wasn't allowed.
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Those present, recall her saying on the platform of the rail car, that there was a Papillon clicking of Kodak's will taking her picture.
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A few months later on October 4th, 1915, Conway passed at the age of 79.
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At the time of her death, she was active as the chaplain of the daughters of veterans and vice-president of the ladies of the grand army of the Republic.
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Conway's passing's Harbor estate valued at over$35,000.
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Estimated to be over a million dollars today.
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She was a great business woman having listed properties and Odessa, Oak, stale, Pascoe Spokane, and valuable farm properties in Lincoln and Whitman county and her personal estate consisting of notes, mining stocks, and cash in the bank.
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Her daughters of the American revolution application.
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However, did have controversy with her name listed as Isabelle versus Isabella.
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Her husband and sons are all buried in Fairmont cemetery nearby.
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For those listeners who were fans of the popular nineties game, Oregon trail.
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You'll be happy to hear up high in your Lorenzo, Wesley or LW Rema.
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Remote was originally born in Illinois in 1843.
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Where his family years later decided to try their luck moving west to Minnesota territory in 1855.
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Breeding of REM is life.
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It almost feels like replaying the Oregon trail game.
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Which back in these days, anything west of the Mississippi river was considered frontier.
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At the time he spent much of his life living out of a wagon or tent living in the west rather than decided in 1868 to go even further west to Alexandria Douglas county in Minnesota.
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This is where he started a Samael shingle business, became a charter member of a constellation Masonic lodge, and then melt the homes that on 80 acres of land for his sweetheart, Martha Rush.
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His life on their Western frontier was filled with Indian skirmishes during the day, studying at night that also building his own violin and teaching himself to play.
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Brush and Remo finally married, but sadly Martha's health failed.
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Her thinking Oregon might be helpful.
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They set out again westward in late of 1876, Less than a year later, almost at 1877.
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Martha passed in Monmouth, Oregon on March 7th.
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Leaving Rema, a childish widower.
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Fittingly Remo.
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Once again, decided to move to Washington territory where records show he occupied space on front street in Spokane opening the city's first jewelry store.
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His years of studying surveying finally paid off and he performed the first formal survey of Spokane falls and laid it out as a town.
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Rimmer laid out 20 blocks establishing the basic orientation of streets that all subsequent sub dividers would follow in the city.
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In 1879.
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He also saw the loss of one of his stores.
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He built on Howard street to a fire.
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Then rebuilding the building in all brick in 1883, where it was later called the Raymer block.
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This sadly also did burn down at 1889, but was then rebuilt.
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The block does exist today where Mazuma restaurant stan's part of three adjoined historic buildings.
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It's now known today as the Bennett block.
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Rima and Spokane ran businesses, conducting surveys, oversaw the building of Howard street bridge helped found the first library.
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Develops the first telephone line.
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Was the first to record daily weather and more, he was a pioneer and a vital part of Spokane's development as a city.
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On January 4th, his life was tragically.
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Cut short at the age of 41.
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Dying from pneumonia.
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He left his entire estate to his father were$35,000 over a million dollars today.
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Rema being one of the first pioneers of Spokane was oughta original me buried in old mountain view cemetery, but then moved to Greenwood upon its establishment in 1888.
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His grave is one of the oldest in the cemetery.
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When you think the old wild west you think of Texas tombstone and the gold brushing California.
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But many forget the Pacific Northwest was just as wild and Anita lawman.
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I know I've been referred to Spokane as it's named modernly today, but back in the late 18 hundreds, the city was known as spoken falls and the territory of Washington with only a thousand residents.
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In 1881, the town was without Marshall.
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However, I needed one immediately.
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Greenpoint Memorial resonant and Eugene Hyde had his job cut out for him being the city's first Marshall, after being appointed by Robert w forest, the town's first appointed bear.
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Hypey came the first elected Marshall or chief of police in 1883.
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Holding the position till 1885.
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Ironically Hyde was first involved in the real estate business.
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When he first moved to Spokane falls in 1881.
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Then after being the town, Marshall was elected as an alderman.
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Who had an, a failed attempt to become the town mayor in 1887.
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But in 1891 was elected to the state Senate.
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He and his wife left Spokane in 1912 for more mild climate.
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Due to his health declining and then passing away in 1917.
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His body was unreturned to Spokane and interred in greed, wind Memorial terrace.
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In front of his grave is a monument.
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Dan K.
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Take him for his service.
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What does Spokane's richest man is also a resident in Greenwood.
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Edward James Bricknell Bricknell originally was from Illinois and encouraged to visit Spokane by businessmen, a M cannon in 1881.
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He ended up purchasing land, adding up to a total of 3000 acres and taking his business out west.
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Brookdale along with two others, founded Holly Mason marks and co the largest hardware firm in the inland Northwest in 1883.
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Then in 1884 with am Canon and several others form the Spokane falls, lumber and manufacturing co Britney will transform the lumber company into the Spokane mill co in 1886.
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That during its existence became the largest employer in Spokane during its time.
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Brickman was also one of the founders and presidents of traders, national bank, founder, and president of Spokane mill company.
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President of Holly Mason marks and co Spokane falls, water power company bomb, and co a painting business.
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Spokane battle company And the ultimate Herman and Columbia mining company.
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Passing and September 23rd, 1891, his friend cannon was quoted saying his VIM and energy bought the city to life.
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He was always willing to give his aid and advanced capital to establish any enterprise that would advance the interests of Spokane has a commercial and business center.
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As a man, he was always charitable and no deserving person ever left his door as poor as when they entered.
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Brookdale's funeral process was coded the most imposing ever witnessed in the city.
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With his funeral proceeding over a mile long.
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It featured a brass band at the lead.
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With the masons and odd fellows dressed in elaborate costumes and his black plumed, her spaying followed by 68 carriages.
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We'll come back to the grin and going back to a famous resident who helped create a nationally observed holiday.
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Greenwood is also home to the creator of father's day Sorento dot growing up on a farm in Wilbur Washington, Dodd's mother passed away when she was 16.
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She then being the only daughter helped her father raise her brothers, holding her father in high regard.
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After hearing the newly established mother's day during a church sermon Dodd fell fathers also needed to be recognized and spoke to the spoken ministerial Alliance suggesting her own father's birthday, June 5th for father's day.
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They then decided the third Sunday of June instead, but the first father's day was celebrated June 19th.
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In 1910 in Spokane Washington, many observed the holiday to the 1920s.
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Till in 1966, Linden made Johnson signed the president's role proclamation declaring.
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The third, Sunday of June is father's day.
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It officially became a permanently national observed day by president Nixon in 1972.
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Dot was honored at the world's fair in Spokane in 1974 for the observed holiday, then passed four years later at the age of 96 in 1978.
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Life in the wild west on the frontier was a hard life.
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Many times reading about a person's past accomplishments, so full and varied.
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You can forget how many of the struggles they faced in life.
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Walter Lawson, a Buffalo soldier and Spokane police officer who resides within grade one is one of those tales.
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Life on the frontier was hard, but life has an African-American on the front hair was even harder.
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Out of Greenwood's residents, Walter Lawson known as Walker had an impressive life and is one I really wanted listeners to know of.
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You see, Walker originally was from Virginia and served as a private and the 25th infantry regiment in the Indian wars from 1886 to 1891 in Montana.
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His regimen was a segregated unit of African-American soldiers.
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Which was nicknamed by the native American tribes, Buffalo soldiers.
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During his service, the 25th inventory was stationed and the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Montana, where they took part of the ghost stands war in 1890, that involved the massacre of wounded knee.
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This was an absolute dark time in America's history.
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We just fought the civil war, but African Americans years before and after dealt with segregation and extremely unfair treatment.
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But the other side of this was also America's policy and treatment of the native Americans, something equally worse and damning in our history.
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I'm not a professional writer or historian.
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So I feel conveying the gravity of either party's treatment is beneath me.
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But I hope listeners know it's an ugly, disgusting history that hurts to read of let alone know anyone experienced.
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Walk who was in the middle of history that would easily break many spirits of Americans today, buddy prospered.
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After the war going on to become a cowboy and Montana and finding love with Emilia Milly, Langford.
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Walk around his wife came to Spokane in 1894, where he became a Porter in hotel.
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A few years later in 1899, he would find his true calling becoming a special police officer working for the Spokane police department.
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He then later became a patrolman, a wagon driver, and then near the end of his career, the department's official driver of the new automobile.
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Sadly, he fell ill from acute intestinal disorder.
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In 1917 passing away just six days after being on duty.
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Welker at the time of his passing had the honor of having a badge number four, meaning he was the fourth longest tenured officer on the police force.
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He was respected, fearless and remarkable, and the line of duty.
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Even with the prejudice and hardships he endured, he never lost his self-control and his police captain was quoted saying he would go anywhere.
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And his record as a policeman was above average.
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Also saying Walter was a rare fellow who never intruded anywhere.
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And he was well liked by all of us.
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We admired him, not only as a man, but as a faithful and brave officer.
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After his passing and news article was published about him.
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Stating he was one of the bravest officers, whoever wore the blue R Swan, a nightstick Walker was the only officer of African American descent.
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Serving as a policeman on the west coast during his time.
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His accomplishments, high decorum in life gives us a larger reminder that no matter what life gives you, it's what you make of it.
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Walker was a member of the inland empire lodge of colored basins and the Eastern star.
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Just as city as rise and fall.
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So do it's resonance.
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None more so than Anthony Miku cannon, who also was known as am Canon and Spokane false.
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Canada originally came to Spokane in 1878 and was one of its founding fathers.
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He first moved into a simplistic rustic cabin.
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That would be short-lived needing more space for his wife and five children.
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Constructing, what would become Spokane's finest looking home.
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He was just getting started with his mark on the city.
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He quickly amassed a great well from businesses and the establishment.
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Oh, Spokane's first bank and the city.
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Then sought to dramatically upgrade his home, to display his opulent wealth, Ken, and then constructed a huge Victorian style mansion.
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The first in the city.
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With central heating system, Gath, sliding, and bath tubs yet Canon and stop there.
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The mansion had custom mahogany accent flooring with a parkette design horse stables also made in mahogany.
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And a fountain in the front yard.
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The display was one of opulence and splendor to all passing by in the city.
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However, didn't get to enjoy his creation for long with the panic of 1893, crippling his finances.
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Cannon's assets were seized with all his business, his and him going to New York.
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In the end.
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He tragically died penniless in a hotel in New York and was taken back to Spokane where he laced arrest in Greenwood.
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Spokane has a street hill park.
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City pool and a planet edition, all sporting kid, a Canon name in his honor, his opulent mansion.
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However, didn't survive.
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Due to a fire in 1937 and his other houses were CEDS torn down.
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Greenpoint's lengthy and pioneer intertwined history within its pine lined pathways is one surely filled with hauntings.
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Rightly so.
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Beyond the grounds now on private properties, it's an old staircase into the terrace.
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These stairs are cleaned to be so haunted that not many who have attempted to climb them, make it to the top, nicknamed the thousand steps it's claimed.
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You'll hear the shrieks and cries of the dead.
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All while it feels as if a rain drops hate your skin, but there's no rain while climbing the steps.
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But this has to be done without light.
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And if that doesn't deter you, when you reach the top, you'll see the faces of men, women, and children that have all passed away.
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The steps were part of the purchase from the Elk's club whose muzzle Liam sets near the top.
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The organization originally paid for the steps and a gardener to tend to the exotic plants around them.
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But when it bankrupt.
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Uh, once Lifesize bronze statue of an elk sat at the top.
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The muzzle Liam, but was sold to cover the remaining debts.
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The steps then fell in disrepair, looking extremely creepy and are very unsafe today.
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Just in case you're wondering there's only 60 steps, not 1000 to the top.
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Rumors of satanic rituals taking place in the grounds also abound, but there's no proof that these claims exist.
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Greenwood's partake in the 1974.
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World's fair.
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So many renovations and the cemetery seating and easement from us Western boundary for a new rail line into the city.
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Local legends have claims of laborers dying during the construction of a tunnel beneath the cemetery.
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Haunt the grounds.
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Some say the laborers who died on site during the construction, the railway had their bodies burned right then and there, some say the Berry train cars even have the possibility of buried treasure.
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No one, however, has been able to uncover if the Dalles are true since the overgrowth of hesitation, thus erasing the tunnels, the original existence.
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So we'll just have to go by local folklore for now.
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The Pacific Northwest may seem like grounds for nature, hiking and modern day cities.
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But it's still filled with rich history from its past Greenwood Memorial terrorists is one of those places serving as a reminder of those who settled the city and created what we see today.
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A worthy stroll.
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There is a lush gardens into its pioneer past.
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It's history, dark inspiring, and even heartwarming at times.
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So if you find yourself in the Pacific Northwest, or if you're a local, I hope you find yourself at agreement memorials, terrorists, gates.
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Appreciating its history and residents a little more.
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The grave grind for Greenland Memorial terrace was a lemon vanilla latte from coffee.
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Coffee in Spokane Washington.
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For now we're closing the gate on Greenwood Memorial terrace.
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We hope you enjoyed our Daikin history.
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When we opened the gate on the grin.